Apple Pomace Makes Good Feed For Beef Cattle Beef animals may not need an apple a day to keep healthy But hcet heifers on test recently put on weight when they aie pressed apple cores, stems, and peelings as an experimental roughage in winter rations. Cooperative research by the V mginia Agricultural Experiment Station and USDA’s Beef Cattle Research Station at Front Royal, Va, showed that the pomace as the apple leftovers are called - is every bit as nutritious as Kically.grown feedstuffs And the animals eating it not only thrived but gained more than animals eat mg the locally grown feed This is good news to Virginia's apple growers, who annually pro duce several thousand tons of pomace in processing apples for cider At one time, a maiket for apple pomace existed in the pre serve industry, which extracted pectin for jams and jellies BUT THIS MARKET has shift cd to citrus That prompted re searchers to investigate nearby cattle feeding as a possible mar ket for pomace Feeding tests were set up to see how apple pomace compared with locally grown roughage for wintering cat tie Animal husbandman B M Pn ode, of ARS. and M J Bums, of the state station (now with ARS), fed two types of apple pomace to cattle having access to sparse winter forage. One type was wet containing 70 per cent moisture The other was dry, derived from the wet pomace by partial dehy dration with steam heat to a mois ture content of about 4 per cen* The wet pomace was stored in a covered shed with no packing or pieservative. Even under these conditions, the sugar-rich pomace remained nutritious, palatable, and unspoiled SAMPLE COPIES FREE Copies of LANCASTER FARMING are not always easy to find—they are not sold on newsstands —and perhaps some of your friends may not be ac quainted with our weekly service. We’ll be glad to send, without charge, several copies of LANCASTER FARMING to your friends or business associates. Just write their names and addresses below—(You’ll be doing both them and us a favor') To Farm Name- Street Address & R. D City To Farm Name- Street Address & R. D City (You are not limited to two names. Use separate sheet for additional names) Your Name - Address □ CHECK here if you prefer to send a Year’s (52 issues) GIFT subscription for $2 each to your friends listed above. If so $ enclosed, or □ Bill me later, (Each will receive a colorful gift announcement card.) Please mail this form to - LANCASTER FARMING CIRCULATION DEPT. BOX 126 QUARRYVILLE, PA. UNBRED SHORTHORN year ling heiters gained 115 pounds in 106 days 1 09 pounds daily on self-fed dry apple pomace and a pound of cottonseed cake daily For compaiison, a sorgo-Sudan grass soybean silage and .75 pound of cottonseed cake were fed per day to some other heifers during the same testing period They gained only 32 pounds, or 3 pound daily Animals on apple pomace ate 12 3 pounds oi the by-product daily, while the support for the four children even though all are not his 9 A The first step in seeking to obtain a divorce from a wife who is allegedly guilty of adulterous conduct during the marriage is to see the advice of a lawyer as to whether there are grounds for divorce, and if there are grounds, whether or not they can be proven in court As to the husband's dutj to support children of whom he claims he is not the father, the law raises a strong presumption that children born to a married woman are legitimate Any effort by the husband of the married woman to avoid his obligation to support such children bom to his wife would have to be supported by stiong and convincing evi dence that he was not the father of the children LANCASTER FARMING CLASSIFIED ADS PAY Phone STterling 6-2132 Lloyd M. BURKHOLDER chick 4>v Hatchery Red or White jT I *** iSS Vantress Cross White Leghorns E/'sw R-B Red Cross f'',' \ U S Approved Pullorum Clean Call RE 3-0613 R D I—Ephrata, Pa. 1 nil NF of Clay on Stevens Rd. KIND TO THE COWS! (Ci 7JU ”400” Milker Leaves teats and udders in hand-milked condition. Saves labor, time, money. . . . Let us prove it! Condc finest in pipe line Milkers SNAVELY'S FARM SERVICE New Holland Ph. EL 4-2214 G E W